Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
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The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
